VERÓNICA PEÑA (Spain/USA) is an interdisciplinary performance artist, independent curator,
and international-community advocate based in the US since 2006, and in Australia since 2024. Her work
explores absence, separation, and the search for harmony through performance art, participation,
science, and technology. Peña performs and exhibits primarily in Europe, and America. In America: SVA
School of Visual Arts (NYC, 2024), Glasshouse (NY Upstate Art Weekend, 2024), Museo Ex Teresa
(ZonaMaco, Mexico City, 2022), Satellite Art Fair (Miami Art Week, 2021), ChaShaMa (NYC, 2021),
Grace Exhibition Space (NYC, 2021), Franklin Furnace (NYC, 2021), NARS Foundation (Artist-In-
Residence, NYC, 2021), Coaxial Arts Foundation (LA, 2021), Smack Mellon Foundation (NYC), Triskelion
Arts (NYC), Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (Encuentro Chile), Queens Museum, Sala
Luis Miro Quesada (Lima, Perú), SAIC School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Visiting Artist), Times
Square Alliance, Armory Show, Purdue University, Pøst Art Gallery (LA), Dumbo Arts Festival (NYC),
Consulate of Spain in NY, others. In Europe: AADK (Artist-In-Residence, Spain, 2024), Est_Art Gallery
(Madrid, 2023), Live Art Ireland (2022), Fundación Bilbaoarte (Spain, 2021), Museo La NeomudéJar
(Madrid, 2019), Friche La Belle De Mai (Marseille, 2018), Festival Intramurs (Valencia, 2018), La
Tabacalera (Madrid, 2018), Zaratan Arte Contemporáneo (Lisbon), Casa de América (Madrid), others.
Peña was selected for Creative Capital NYC Taller 2020, received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Emergency Grant 2022, Queens Arts Council Grant 2022, and a Franklin Furnace Fund 2018. She
published “The Presence Of The Absent”, was reviewed by Donald Kuspit, and on Hyperallergic. She
founded/leads Performance Art Open Call, +33,100 FB Community.
